Welcome to benryves.com!
This is the personal website of Ben Ryves, a software developer from London with interests in electronics, old computers, calculators and video games.
Latest updates
40-column text modes on Sharp organisers with the 16-column IQ-707 BASIC card
2nd July 2025 • Journal
Highlighting and tape loading PC-1500 BASIC programs on the web
9th May 2025 • Journal
Relocatable Quick-Tape installer for the Sharp PC-1500
26th April 2025 • Journal
Faster tape loading on the Sharp PC-1500 with Fast Load
20th April 2025 • Journal
Building your own analogue sensors for the SmartBox
29th November 2024 • Journal
Resampling Sharp PC-1500 tape recordings
16th October 2024 • Journal
1-Wire interfacing with the Cambridge Z88
17th December 2023 • Journal
SmartBox experimentation with DOS, RISC OS and C#/WinForms
6th November 2023 • Journal
Adding 11KB of RAM to a CP/M 3 system with a single NAND gate chip
30th August 2023 • Journal
Reverse engineering Z-Tape for the Cambridge Z88
10th June 2023 • Journal
Updated TI-83 Plus BootExec with support for TI's "Silver Link" driver
7th June 2023 • Journal
Updated TI-83 Plus BootExec with USB "Silver Link" support
4th June 2023 • Journal